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Updating the change management qualifications

  Best practice in change management is being revised, in readiness for a new set of change management qualifications.   The discipline of change management has become increasingly important as the pace of change – in both a work and society context – continues to gather pace. Change managers introduce or maintain change within their [...]

By | March 13th, 2014|Categories: Business|Tags: , , , , , |0 Comments

Paradigm change brings benefits via Facilitation skills

  According to Teresa Fenn, a Technical Director with Risk & Policy Analysts Limited (RPA) - a Norfolk-based consultancy providing advice to clients spanning the chemicals, energy, water, waste and more general environmental sectors around the world - applying the Facilitation methodology outlined in APMG-International’s Facilitation skills certification scheme amounts to a paradigm shift in [...]

By | April 17th, 2013|Categories: Business|Tags: , , , , , , |0 Comments

Process not task orientation is key to effective Facilitation

  Risk & Policy Analysts Limited (RPA), a Norfolk-based consultancy providing advice to clients spanning the chemicals, energy, water, waste and more general environmental sectors around the world, is reaping the business benefits of adopting a more rigorous approach to Facilitation skills.   Providing strategic analysis skills to help decision makers with the [...]

By | April 15th, 2013|Categories: Business|Tags: , , , , |0 Comments

Facilitation skills’ methodology endorsed

Using facilitation skills expounded by Tony Mann, of Resource Strategic Change and senior examiner on APMG-International’s facilitation skills certification scheme, with the senior team at Premier Foods’ Hovis plant in Avonmouth, has proved extremely powerful, believes the Site Manufacturing Manager, Gordon Swanston. According to Gordon: “Our ability to very quickly coalesce as a [...]

By | March 7th, 2013|Categories: Business|Tags: , , , |0 Comments

Increasing engagement and motivation levels via Facilitation skills

According to Gordon Swanston, currently a Site Manufacturing Manager based in Avonmouth with the bakers, Hovis – part of Premier Foods Ltd, one of the benefits of applying facilitation tools and techniques is that both the facilitators and those who are ‘facilitated’ become much more engaged. He observed that, when he was working for British [...]

By | March 6th, 2013|Categories: Business|Tags: , , , , |5 Comments

Facilitation skills fan speaks out

Gordon Swanston, currently a Site Manufacturing Manager based in Avonmouth with the bakers, Hovis – part of Premier Foods Ltd – has been a fan of facilitation tools and techniques for some ten years. In that time, in various business contexts, Gordon has seen the application of these tools and techniques produce increased [...]

By | March 5th, 2013|Categories: Business|Tags: , , , |0 Comments